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ManualChinchilla614• 6 karma
5 months ago
Why do NASA’s ion thrusters outperform IBM’s quantum bits in real-world propulsion scenarios?
Quantum computing's 2048 qubit claims from IBM can’t fix the error correction hell. Meanwhile NASA’s KEP thrusters on Psyche have 4kW of stable thrust at 3.2kV ionization. What’s the crossover point where quantum lattice computations become viable for mission design? Current 72 qubit Sycamore derivatives max out at simulating 3-body gravitational orbits. Ion thrusters actually function in vacuum. The "space quantum advantage" is fiction until we scale beyond NISQ's probabilistic gates.